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  <p>Once upon a time, Sailik was born in the city of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata">Kolkata</a>. Over the years, he has developed a taste for life-long learning, thinking, coding, reading, clicking pictures, eating lots of food and listening to a wide variety of music.</p>

  <p>After completing his Ph.D. at Arizona State University with <a href="http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/">Dr. Subbarao Kambhampati</a>, he joined Amazon AI's <a href='https://aws.amazon.com/lex/'>Lex team</a> as an Applied Research Scientist. He is interested in identifying failure points of cyber systems and deep learning models and proposing solutions can make these systems behave is a robust and reliable manner. In 2018, he was awarded the prestigious <a href="https://www.research.ibm.com/university/awards/fellowships-awardees.html">IBM Ph.D. Fellowship</a> for his work.</p>

  <p>Feel free to reach out to him with queries relating to his work (or just say a 'hi'). You can download a copy of his <a href="./files/CV_sailiks.pdf">CV here</a>.</p>

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                                                                               style=""><span class="typ">Sho</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">e</span><span class="pun">-</span><span class="pln">lik</span></code>.  It means the aesthetic quality of any work.</p>
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           Arizona State University
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           Jadavpur University
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    <li><p><strong>Applied Research Scientist</strong>, <span class="fa fa-amazon body-icon"
                                                             style="color:#ff9900;"></span>mazon Science (2020-Present)</p>
      Working on challenges in goal-oriented chat-bots as part of the <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/lex/">AWS Lex</a> team.
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      Worked on training-data augmentation for improving few-shot performance of state-of-the-art (SOTA) text-classification models.
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        Backend (Java), Frontend (NodeJS) and everything in between. A disciple of the <a href="http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html">Tao of Programming</a> and
        follower of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Clean-Code-Handbook-Software-Craftsmanship/dp/0132350882">Clean Code</a>ing practices. Was a software
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>On the Robustness of Intent Classification and Slot Labeling in Goal Oriented Dialogue Systems to Real-world Noise </strong></p>
      <p><em>Sailik Sengupta*, Jason P Krone*, Saab Mansour</em></p>
      <p>NLP for Conversational AI, EMNLP'21 (Also presented at ICLR'21 Workshop on Robust Machine Learning)</p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Software Deception Steering through Version Emulation</strong></p>
      <p><em>Frederico Araujo, Sailik Sengupta, Jiyong Jang, Adam Doup&eacute;, Kevin Hamlen, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Imperfect ImaGANation: Implications of GANs Exacerbating Biases on Facial Data</strong></p>
      <p><em>Niharika Jain, Alberto Olmo, Sailik Sengupta, Lydia Manikonda, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>ICLR'21 Workshop on Synthetic Data Generation- Quality, Privacy, and Bias</p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Game-theoretic Model of Trust to Infer Human's Observation Strategy of Robot Behavior</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sailik Sengupta*, Zahra Zahedi*, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>RSS'21 Workshop on Robotics for People: Perspectives on Interaction, Learning, and Safety</p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>The What, When, and How of Strategic Movement in Adversarial Settings:<br>A Syncretic View of AI and Security</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sailik Sengupta</em></p>
      <p>Ph.D. Thesis</p>
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    	<p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning in Bayesian Stackelberg Markov Games for Adaptive Moving Target Defense</strong></p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>'Why not give this work to them?' Explaining AI-Moderated Task-Allocation Outcomes using Negotiation Trees</strong></p>
      <p><em>Zahra Zahedi*, Sailik Sengupta*, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>NeurIPS Workshop on Co-operative Aritificial Intelligence (Co-op AI), 2020</p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Not all Failure Modes are Created Equal: Training Deep Neural Networks for Explicable (Mis)Classification</strong></p>
      <p><em>Alberto Olmo*, Sailik Sengupta*, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>ICML Workshop(s) on Uncertainty and Robustness in Deep Learning (UDL) and Human-In-the-Loop Learning (HILL), 2020</p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Moving Target Defense for Robust Fingerprinting of Electric Grid Transformers in Adversarial Environments</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, Kaustav Basu, Arunabha Sen, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>GameSec, 2020</p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>A Survey of Moving Target Defenses for Network Security</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sailik Sengupta*, Ankur Chowdhary*, Abdulhakim Sabur, Dijiang Huang, Adel Alshamrani, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2020</p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>RADAR: Automated Task Planning for Proactive Decision Support</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sachin Grover, Sailik Sengupta, Tathagata Chakraborti, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>HCI Journal on Unifying Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence, 2020 (Also presented at <a href="https://icaps20.icaps-conference.org/paper322.html">ICAPS, 2020 Journal Track</a>)</p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>RADAR-X: An Interactive Interface Pairing Contrastive Explanations with Revised Plan Suggestions</strong></p>
      <p><em>Karthik Valmeekam, Sarath Sreedharan, Sailik Sengupta, Subbarao Kambhampati </em></p>
      <p>ICAPS Workshop on Explainable AI Planning (XAIP), 2020</p>
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      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>DAPT 2020 - Constructing a Benchmark Dataset for Advanced Persistent Threats</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sowmya Myneni*, Ankur Chowdhary*, Abdulhakim Sabur, Sailik Sengupta, Garima Agrawal, Dijiang Huang, Myong Kang</em></p>
      <p>ML-Hat, 2020 (co-located with KDD-2020)</p>
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    <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>General Sum Markov Games for Strategic Detection of Advanced Persistent Threats using Moving Target Defense in Cloud Networks</strong></p>
    <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, Ankur Chowdhary, Dijiang Huang, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
    <p>GameSec, 2019</p>
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    <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>MTDeep: Moving Target Defense to Boost the Security of Deep Neural Nets Against Adversarial Attacks</strong></p>
    <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, Tathagata Chakraborti, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
    <p>GameSec, 2019 (A preliminary version was presented at a AAAI-18 Workshop on Enginnering Secure and Dependable ML Systems)</p>
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      <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.07213"><button type="button"
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      <a href="./files/mtdeep_gamesec19_ppt.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                         class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">slides</button></a>
      <a href="./files/MTDeep-poster.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                  class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">poster</button></a>
    </p>

    <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Natural Language Generation with Keyword Constraints-- A Hybrid Approach using Supervised and Reinforcement Learning</strong></p>
    <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, He He, Batool Haider, Spandana Gella, Mona Diab</em></p>
    <p>WeCNLP, 2019</p>
    <p><a href="./files/WeCNLP_19_poster.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                      class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">poster</button></a></p>

    <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Markov Game Modeling of Moving Target Defense for Strategic Detection of Threats in Cloud Networks</strong></p>
    <p><em>Ankur Chowdhary*, Sailik Sengupta*, Dijiang Huang, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
    <p>AAAI'19 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (AICS) (Preliminary version accepted to ICNC, 2019)</p>
    <p><a href="https://twitter.com/arXiv_Daily/status/1079017322973671424"><button type="button"
                                                                                    class="btn btn-outline-warning btn-sm">Must read by arXiv_Daily</button></a></p>
    <p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.09660"><button type="button"
                                                          class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a>
      <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/4j67062t5ngb9n8/aics.pptx?dl=0"><button type="button"
                                                                                 class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">slides</button></a>
      <a href="https://github.com/sailik1991/MarkovGameSolvers"><button type="button"
                                                                        class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a></p>
      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>To Monitor or to Trust: Observing Robot's Behavior based on a Game-Theoretic Model of Trust</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sailik Sengupta*, Zahra Zahedi*, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>21st International Workshop on Trust in Agent Societies (co-located with AAMAS, 2019)</p>
      <p>
        <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.00111"><button type="button"
                                                           class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a>
        <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMD4LdwowDw"><button type="button"
                                                                      class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">slides&nbsp;+&nbsp;talk</button></a>
      </p>
      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>iPass: A Case Study of the Effectiveness of Automated Planning for Decision Support</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sachin Grover, Sailik Sengupta, Tathagata Chakraborti, Aditya Prasad Mishra, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>Naturalistic Decision Making, 2019</p>
      <p>
        <a href="https://yochan-lab.github.io/papers/files/papers/iPass.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                     class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a>
        <a href="https://yochan-lab.github.io/papers/files/papers/iPass_poster.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                            class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">poster</button></a>
      </p>

      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>CAP: A Decision Support System for Crew Scheduling using Automated Planning</strong></p>
      <p><em>Aditya Prasad Mishra, Sailik Sengupta, Sarath Sreedharan, Tathagata Chakraborti, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>Naturalistic Decision Making, 2019</p>
      <p>
        <a href="https://yochan-lab.github.io/papers/files/papers/CAP.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                   class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a>
        <a href="https://yochan-lab.github.io/papers/files/papers/CAPS_Poster.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                           class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">poster</button></a>
      </p>
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      <h3>&#x1f4c5; 2018</h3></p>
    </div>
    <div class="col-md-10">
      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Moving Target Defense for the Placement of Intrusion Detection Systems in the Cloud</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, Ankur Chowdhary, Dijiang Huang, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>GameSec, 2018</p>
      <p>
        <a href="https://yochan-lab.github.io/papers/files/papers/mtd_ids_gamesec.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                               class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a>
        <a href="https://yochan-lab.github.io/papers/files/slides/MTD-IDS.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                       class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">slides</button></a>
      </p>
      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>MTDeep - Boosting the Security of Deep Neural Nets Against Adversarial Attacks with Moving Target Defense</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, Tathagata Chakraborti, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>AAAI'18 Workshop on Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems</p>
      <p>
        <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07213"><button type="button"
                                                           class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a> <a href="./files/mtdnn.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                      class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">slides</button></a>
      </p>


      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>An Investigation of Bounded Misclassification for Operational Security of Deep Neural Networks</strong></p>
      <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, Andrew Dudley, Tathagata Chakraborti, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>AAAI'18 Workshop on Engineering Dependable and Secure Machine Learning Systems</p>
      <p><a href="./files/aaai_wlf_bounded_misclassification.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                          class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a> <a href="./files/bounded_misclassification.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                                                         class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">slides</button></a></p>
      <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>MA-RADAR - A Mixed-Reality Interface for Collaborative Decision Making</strong></p>
      <p><em>Tathagata Chakraborti*, Sailik Sengupta*, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
      <p>ICAPS, 2018 System Demo (Also to be presented at the UISP Workshop @ ICAPS, 2018)</p>
      <p><a href="https://yochan-lab.github.io/papers/files/papers/ma-radar.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                         class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a>
        <p class="text-secondary"
           style="font-size:large;"><strong>Decomposable Intents in Goal-Directed Conversations: Dataset and Challenges for End-to-End Learning</strong></p>
        <p class="text-secondary"><em>Sailik Sengupta, Rashmi Gangadharaiah, Ajay Mishra, Mona Diab</em></p>
        <p class="text-secondary">WeCNLP Summit, 2018 (Retracted)</p>
      </div>
    </div>

    <!-- 2017 -->
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        <h3>&#x1f4c5; 2017</h3></p>
      </div>
      <div class="col-md-10">
        <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>RADAR - A Proactive Decision Support System for Human-in-the-Loop Planning</strong></p>
        <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, Tathagata Chakraborti, Sarath Sreedharan, Satya Gautam Vadlamudi, Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
        <p>AAAI Fall Symposium on Human-Agent Groups, 2017</p>
        <p>ICAPS, 2017 System Demo (Was also presented at the UISP Workshop @ ICAPS, 2017)</p>
        <p><a href="https://aaai.org/ocs/index.php/FSS/FSS17/paper/view/16028"><button type="button"
                                                                                       class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a> <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/k5mxrv8dk0niepu/UISP_final.pptx?dl=0"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                               class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">slides</button></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5lYDnSh3B8"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">demo</button></a></p>

        <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>A Game Theoretic Approach to Strategy Generation for Moving Target Defense in Web Applications</strong></p>
        <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, Satya Gautam Vadlamudi, Subbarao Kambhampati, Adam Doup&eacute;, Ziming Zhao, Marthony Taguinod,  Gail-Joon Ahn</em></p>
        <p>AAMAS, 2017 (Also presented at ADVERSE workshop @ AAMAS, 2017)</p>
        <p><a href="https://www.cse.wustl.edu/~sanmay/papers/whatshot-aamas-final.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                               class="btn btn-info btn-sm">Hot Trends at AAMAS</button></a></p>
        <p><a href="http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/AAMAS-2017-MTD.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                             class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a> <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/rcn32127584np6e/AAMAS-Session1D.pdf?dl=0"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                         class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">slides</button></a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03rydUG2lBU"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">talk</button></a></p>

        <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Moving Target Defense: A Symbiotic Framework for AI &amp; Security</strong></p>
        <p><em>Sailik Sengupta</em></p>
        <p>AAMAS (DC), 2017</p>
        <p><a href="http://www.aamas2017.org/proceedings/pdfs/p1861.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                 class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a>
          <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/dad6q3qdjuxpks5/DC.pdf?dl=0"><button type="button"
                                                                                  class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">slides</button></a></p>
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          <h3>&#x1f4c5; 2016</h3></p>
        </div>
        <div class="col-md-10">

          <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Compliant Conditions for Polynomial Time Approximation of Operator Counts</strong></p>
          <p><em>Tathagata Chakraborti, Sarath Sreedharan, Sailik Sengupta, T. K. Satish Kumar and Subbarao Kambhampati</em></p>
          <p>SoCS, 2016</p>
          <p><a href="http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/socs-16.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                        class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a> <a href="https://github.com/TathagataChakraborti/compliance"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                                                                    class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a></p>

          <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Moving Target Defense For Web Applications Using Bayesian Stackelberg Games</strong></p>
          <p><em>Satya Gautam Vadlamudi, Sailik Sengupta, Subbarao Kambhampati, Marthony Taguinod, Ziming Zhao, Adam Doup&eacute;, Gail-Joon Ahn</em></p>
          <p>AAMAS, 2016</p>
          <p><a href="http://rakaposhi.eas.asu.edu/aamas16-mtd.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                            class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a> <a href="https://github.com/sailik1991/StackelbergEquilibribumSolvers"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                  class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a></p>
        </div>
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          <h3>&#x231b; Past life</h3></p>
        </div>
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          <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>Application of worker-manager model to genomic networks for identifying key regulators in Glioblastoma</strong></p>
          <p>worked with <em>Debarka Sengupta</em> and <em>Sangamitra Bandhopadhyay</em></p>
            <!-- <br> -->
          <p style="font-size:large;"><strong>An improved fuzzy clustering method using modified Fukuyama-Sugeno cluster validity index</strong></p>
          <p><em>Sailik Sengupta, Soham De, Amit Konar, R. Janarthanan</em></p>
          <p>ReTIS, 2010</p>
          <p><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ponruwp"><button type="button"
                                                          class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">paper</button></a></p>
        </div>
      </div>

    <h2 id="teaching">Teaching</h2>
    <hr>
    <ul>
      <li><p><strong>Guest Lecturer</strong>, CSE 550 - Combinatorial Algorithms and Intractability, ASU (Spring, 2018)</p>
      </li>
      <li><p><strong>Teaching Assistant</strong>, CSE 471 - Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, ASU (Fall, 2016)</p>
      </li>
      <li><p><strong>Instructor</strong>, CSE 486 - Capstone, ASU (Fall, 2015)</p>
      </li>
    </ul>
    <br>
    <h2 id="awards-and-services">Awards and Services</h2>
    <hr>
    <ul>
      <li>
        <p>IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, 2018-2020 (<a href="https://www.research.ibm.com/university/awards/phdfellowship.shtml">link</a>).</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>Invited talk, Microsoft Research AI Breakthroughs, 2020.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>University Graduate/Doctoral Fellowship in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>Top-three Intern Projects, Amazon Graduate Research Colloquium, 2019.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>Engineering Graduate Fellowship in 2019.</p></li>
        <li>
          <p>Reviewer for NeurIPS, AAAI, IJCAI, AAMAS, several IEEE Journals (L-CSS, ComCom, ComS&amp;T), and workshops (at AAAI, ICAPS and AAMAS). Sub-reviewer for AIES, ICAPS and ICRA.</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <p><a href="http://ijcai-16.org/index.php/welcome/view/organizcommittee#web_design">Website developer</a> and a <a href="http://ijcai-16.org/index.php/welcome/view/confcommittee#review_process_committee">Review Process Committee</a> member for IJCAI'16.</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <p>Outstanding Developer, External Payment Services (EPS) - Amazon, 2015.</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <p>Departmental Top-three, Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, 2013.</p>
        </li>
        <li>
          <p>Indian National-Level Olympiad Participant in Physics and Chemistry, 2008.</p>
        </li>
      </ul>
      <br>
      <h2 id="projects-and-other-stuff">Projects and Other Stuff</h2>
      <hr>
      <ul>
        <li><p>[Summer'19] Policy Gradient in Keras.
          <a href="https://github.com/sailik1991/RL-lab"><button type="button"
                                                                 class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a></p>
            </p>
      </li>
      <li><p>[Spring'18] A Bit-Flag based Integer Linear Program for finding the Minimum Identifying Code Set using 
        <a href="https://github.com/sailik1991/mics"><button type="button"
                                                             class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a></p>
          </p>
    </li>
    <li><p>[Spring'18] Optimal Robotic Surveillance using Bayesian Stackelberg Games.
      <a href="https://github.com/AdityaPrasadMishra/CSE591-Multi-Robot-Surveilance"><button type="button"
                                                                                             class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a></p>
        </p>
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>[Spring'17] Knowledge Acquisition for Symbiotic Autonomy in Uncertain Environments using <a href="http://reasoning.eas.asu.edu/lpmln/Tutorial.html">LPMLN</a>.
      <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~ssengu15/files/kkr_project_questions.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                            class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">pdf</button></a> <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~ssengu15/files/bibs/robotquestions2017lpmln.bib"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">bibtex</button></a>
    </p>
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>[Spring'17] Integer Linear Program for a Constrained version of the Independed Set problem.
      <a href="https://www.public.asu.edu/~ssengu15/files/max-independent-set.pdf"></a><a href="https://github.com/sailik1991/constrainedIndependentSet"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                                                 class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a>
    </p>
  </li>
  <li>
    <p>[Fall'16] Orchestrating Team Meetings with AI-enabled Smart Assistants.
      <a href="https://github.com/sailik1991/meetingToTranscript"><button type="button"
                                                                          class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a></p>
    </li>
    <li>
      <p>[Fall'16] Scene Understanding with Deep Neural Networks - Identification of Missing or Occluded Objects in Images.
        <a href="http://www.public.asu.edu/~ssengu15/files/identifying-occluded-objects.pdf"><button type="button"
                                                                                                     class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">pdf</button></a></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>[Spring'16] Securing C-code against Size Aware Buffer Overflow Attacks. <a href="https://github.com/yugarsi/sabo"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                     class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>[Fall'15] Secure Java Library for Bcrypt, a Password Hashing Mechanism. <a href="https://github.com/sailik1991/bcrypt\"><button type="button"
                                                                                                                                           class="btn btn-outline-info btn-sm">code</button></a></p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>Real fast <a href="http://www.gurobi.com/">Gurobi</a> installer <a href="https://github.com/sailik1991/utilities/tree/master/setupGurobi">script</a>.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>My wedding story-- a virtual invite.<a href="./wedding_bells/">webpage</a>.</p>
      </li>
      <li>
        <p>Effective time management technique <a href="./pomodoro.html">pomodoro</a>.</p>
      </li>
    </ul>
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